The Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago /

The Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	Art Institute of Chicago, author.
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : Art Institute of Chicago, 2016. New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
Description:	175 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Crèches (Nativity scenes) -- Italy -- Naples -- Catalogs. Art objects, Italian -- Italy -- Naples -- Catalogs. Art objects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Catalogs. Art and music -- Italy -- Naples -- History -- 18th century -- Catalogs. Art and music. Art objects. Art objects, Italian. Crèches (Nativity scenes) Illinois -- Chicago. Italy -- Naples. Catalogs. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11001302

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Other authors / contributors:	Bellenger, Sylvain, editor. Romano, Carmine, editor. Rosenberg, Jesse, author. Muti, Riccardo, writer of preface.
ISBN:	9780300222357 0300222351
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The 18th-century Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents a prime example of this artistic medium. This catalogue is the first to study the crèche in the context of art and music history. Essays explore the Neapolitan crèche tradition and examine the design of Chicago's example with reference to other important crèches in Europe and the United States. Entries on individual figures identify the characters and types they represent, as well as their social and historical meaning and religious significance. Other entries address groups of figures, animals, and cultural themes present in the crèche"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Sylvain Bellenger and Carmine Romano
The scenography of the Neapolitan Crèche / Sylvain Bellenger
Music and the Nativity in eighteenth-century Naples / Jesse Rosenberg
Diagram of the Crèche
The Crèche / Carmine Romano.